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A solicitor’s accounts clerk stole more than £1.6 million from her employers
and spent it on luxury cars, a racehorse, jewellery and holidays in Las
Vegas, a court was told yesterday.

For seven years Louise Martini, who had worked for Williamson & Soden, of
Solihull, since leaving school, plundered the firm’s accounts leaving it “on
its knees”. Yesterday Martini, 36, was jailed for five years by a judge who
said her contrition for her actions was “too little, too late”.

Gloucester Crown Court was told that Mrs Martini had appealed to keep her job
after the fraud was uncovered, claiming